AIDAN O’Brien’s Highland Reel, an excellent second in the Prix du Jockey Club but below his best when unplaced in the Irish Derby, came right back to form in the Group 3 Neptune Investment Management Gordon Stakes.

The Galileo colt, sent off at 7/4 favourite, had to work hard to master Scottish but he was a length and a half to the good at the line with Disegno five lengths away in third.